Longbourn

Longbourn

2013 • 304 pages

Ratings31

Average rating3.6

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A novel whose principal characters are the servants in Jane Austen's Pride and prejudice.

Sarah, the orphaned housemaid, spends her days scrubbing the laundry, polishing the floors, and emptying the chamber pots for the Bennet household. But there is just as much romance, heartbreak, and intrigue downstairs at Longbourn as there is upstairs. When a mysterious new footman arrives, the orderly realm of the servants' hall threatens to be completely, perhaps irrevocably, upended.

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May 29, 2019

This book surprised me. I expected it to be an interesting Downton Abbey-like story of gentry and servants. I did not expect it to be so thoughtful about affluence, and what having it and not having it does to the people who live around it. So thought- provoking!

September 5, 2017

A character-driven fan fic that explores the lives, loves and losses of the Longbourne servants. Clever and drly witty at times.
There is a long section about one character's experience of war that I skimmed over because it doesn't really fit with the rest of the story.

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